Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 41
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 40 Maulavi performing the Nikah himself mentioned a large amount of dowry, whereupon Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen observed: "I have to pay the dowry amount. This is not to be paid by you. It should not be more than five hundred rupees. " There was a commotion among the ladies: "The bridegroom has spoken. " The ladies were unhappy and some of the teachers expressed concern, but Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen did not allow the dowry amount to go above five hundred rupees. His father-in-law did not care about the amount, and the Nikah was performed at the amount suggested by Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen. The name of his wife was Fatima. Three daughters and nine sons were born out of this union. The name of the eldest daughter was Imamah, the second daughter was Hafsah and the third was Amatullah, other two daughters died in infancy. All the sons were born after the birth of the daughters and all of them died in infancy. The name of one of the sons was Usamah and sometime Hakeem Sahib was also known as Abu Usamah (the father of Usamah). The eldest daughter, Imamah, was well educated. She had a command of Urdu, Persian and Pushto languages. Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen taught her Sa ‘ adi and the Persian translation of the Holy Qur'an by Hadhrat Shah Waliullah, and she was married to Maulavi Abdul Waheed, the son of Abdullah Ghaznavi, a pious man of his age. She had two sons and two daughters. She died in 1897 in Qadian. The second daughter, Hafsah, was born in Bhera in 1874. She was also well educated in the Holy Qur'an, the Hadith and medicine, most of which she learnt from her father. She was married to her cousin Hakeem Mufti Fazlur-Rehman in 1891 when Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud- Deen was the Royal Physician in the State of Jammu. In addition to the normal dowry, she was given a box of books most of which were in her study. At the time of her marriage, Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen gave to her a written "Letter of Advice," and he added that this letter was part of the dowry. That letter was composed in the following words ( Hayaat-i-Noor , p. 82-83):